The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-01
FARM AND FIREsIDE..

Clean stoves when cold with any
stove polish mixed with alum water.
Farming is trade which has to be
learned II the worker Mt it would be
effective.
Cookies: Two cups of sugar, two
eggs. one cup of butter, one-half cup of
sweet milk, one teaspoonful of soda.
Lemon juice and sugar, mixed very
thick, is useful to relieve coughs and
sore throats. 1t must be very acid as
well as sweet.
"A tea made of ripe or dried whortlc-
berries, and drank in the place of
water, is speedy cure for many forms
of scrofulous difficulties.
Nervous Headaches: Pour cup of
hot water over hearing teaspoon o.!
ginger. Put in little cream and sugar
and drink the tea. -EGchange.
AS result of experiments at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College, it
is found that when the mere cost OF
the feed is considered, the diet con-
sisting of skinned milk and corn meal
alone is the cheapest food for pigs.
Tomato Toast: Run quart of
tomatoes through the coander, put in
a stew pan, season with butter. pepper
and salt. Cut slices of bread, toast,
butter, and lay on hot dish, and pour
the tomatoes on the toast.-Iadia,lapo
lis Journal.
Eggs designed for Matching should
be collected as soon as laid, either in
warm or cold weather; they should be
kept on soft material, in moderately
cool place, no one resting OH another,
and turned every day. Farm, Field
and Stocbman.
Apple Toast: From slices of dry
bread cut round cakes, spread with
butter, then cover with slices of tart,
ripe apples, sprinkle with sugar, Gin
namon and bits of butter. Serve hot
with cream swcetened and favored
with nutmeg. Indianapolis Sentinel.
To make peach pie, peel the fruit,
cut in halves and lay as closely as pos
sible over the crust in deep pie-platc,
with the open part upward. Sprinkle
with sugar to taste. Then beat well
together n large teacupful of milk, two
tablespoonfuls of sugar, one egg, u lit
lie vanilla and pinch of salt. and pour
this over the peaches and bake without
any upper crust. Eat when partly cool.
Canned peaches can be thus used quite
well when fresh ones are out of season.
Indianapolis Journal.
Ice Cream Cake Take the whites
of eight eggs, beat to stiff froth, two
cups sugar, one cup butter, one cur
sweet milk, two cups flour, one cup
corn starch, two teaspoonsful baking
powder. Cream the butter and sugar,
sift flour, corn-starch and baking pow.
der, add the beaten whites of the eggs
last. Bake in jelly tins. For the icing,
boil four cups sugar until it will candy,
and pour over the beaten whites of foul
eggs, and add one teaspoonful pulver-
lied citrc acid. Stir until cold and
spread between layers. Boston Budget
Chicken Pie: Cut the chickens in
joints; blanch them with boiling water,
season with pepper and salt. mixed
tablespoonful of chopped mushrooms,
parsley and onions, or u larger quanti-
ty of this seasoning can be used; add {;
few slices of ham or bacon. A layer
below and one above the chicken az
ranged in the pic dish is best Fill i
up with veal gravy seasoned with ;
few mushrooms; put in also the yelk
of six hard-boiled eggs. A little lemon
juice may also be added. Cover will
puff, paste and bake rather more thar
an hour. ur.-Bostom Budget.